Re:With Only 44 CS Grads, Is Harvey Mudd's CS Program's Succ...
by adpoe on Sunday January 08, 2017 @09:26PM
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There are only 807 undergrads[1] at Harvey Mudd (which of course is an excellent school).
So that's still a sizable portion of their undergrad students -- even though from such a small sample, it's very hard to tell whether what they are doing would scale.
Also worth noting -- Harvey Mudd is focused on Science and Engineering, so students who pick HM would likely be more predisposed to picking a major like CS, anyway.
But still, an increase is an increase, and they're not out of line to cite those numbers, IMO, they're accurate.
Re:With Only 44 CS Grads, Is Harvey Mudd's CS Program's Succ...
by Hydraulix989 on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:03PM
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An inordinate amount of the college spam emails I received after getting a top score on the SAT while I was in high school were from HM (and a few other schools like Colorado School of Mines and Drexel). It was actually a turn-off.
Re:With Only 44 CS Grads, Is Harvey Mudd's CS Program's Succ...
by msingle on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:04PM
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It's been a while since I checked the numbers but Harvey Mudd alumni are the most likely to get terminal degrees of any school in the world, meaning this CS program will punch far above its weight as far as future professors/researchers go.
So that's still a sizable portion of their undergrad students -- even though from such a small sample, it's very hard to tell whether what they are doing would scale.
Also worth noting -- Harvey Mudd is focused on Science and Engineering, so students who pick HM would likely be more predisposed to picking a major like CS, anyway.
But still, an increase is an increase, and they're not out of line to cite those numbers, IMO, they're accurate.
-- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College
https://www.hmc.edu/academics/
Respond "No." Move on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines